This course is for

Relationships, Possibilities, & Action

There are nearly endless books, classes, online programs meant to teach you what you need to have a good life. What’s essential and powerful about all of them is often overlooked.

You determine the quality and success of your life by how skillfully you design and conduct conversations. In both your professional and personal life your level of competence in building relationships, exploring possibilities, and coordinating action brings about fulfillment, meaning and achievement—or disappointment, confusion and waste.

Being conversationally competent, though, requires much more than learning techniques or flowcharts of conversations.

How do I become masterful?

Here's a partial list of what’s really required:

Having a body that’s present, centered and sensitively responsive

Understanding how you uniquely interpret so you quickly adjust your speaking and listening to correct for blind spots and fixed views

Consciously opening your intuition to grasp what isn’t being explicitly said but is still in the background, shaping the conversation

Having a vast repertory of words, distinctions, concepts so your speaking and listening are precise, nuanced, flexible and powerful

Courage, creativity, resilience and resourcefulness

Discerning when and how to ground your own speaking or skillfully inquire into the grounding of someone else

Tuning into how your conversational partners are listening in a given moment so you can shift your speaking accordingly

What the course provides

During our three-day workshop we will address these topics and many more with talks, exercises, group activities and examples.

We will integrally study and inquire into the philosophical, relational, cultural, linguistic, and somatic elements of successful conversations. You will receive a resource manual with an extensive bibliography. The program is friendly, rigorous, practical and comprehensive.

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